Kaylianna Mathison, Brainerd, will tour Minnesota with the Minnesota State University Moorhead Concert Choir in March. Mathison is a music education major at MSUM and a member of the choir.

The group’s four-city tour begins March 8 in Hutchinson and includes workshops and performances in St. Paul, Rosemount, Bemidji and Crookston. The choir is led by Daniel A. Mahraun, director of choral activities in the Music Department at MSUM. All performances feature Celebrations, a cantata by 20th-century American composer Vincent Persichetti. The cantata consists of settings of nine texts by Walt Whitman. The performance also includes classical and folk music from the Middle Ages to today.

Amy Roth, Baxter, was named to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls fall semester dean’s list.

Zachary Meyer, Brainerd, and Kaitlin Larson, Aitkin, were named to the Marquette University fall dean’s list.

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